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by _alex_ 5y ago
Goes by other names. You probably have an anonymous ethics line
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by _alex_ 5y ago
I have a similar but different thing I tell people: I think engineers should do a stint as a product manager. Spending time trying to solve problems on "the other side of the table" forces you to learn a lot about the business imp
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by _alex_ 5y ago
tl;dr: a machine with 2 GB of ram that is doing pulling a blog post out of a DB and passing it through Django can do ~50tps
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by _alex_ 5y ago
Im thinking about making the same switch. What app are you using on the ipad that makes your notes searchable?
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by _alex_ 5y ago
why not power per dollar transferred? transactions per 10 minute period is relatively constant over time. The thing that increases the energy usage is the price of bitcoin. It's a dumb metric.
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by _alex_ 5y ago
Volatility up, coinbase down
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by _alex_ 5y ago
The power per tx metric is a dumb metric. Power usage doesnt increase or decrease per tx
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by _alex_ 6y ago
lots of links: https://aws.amazon.com/opensource/
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by _alex_ 6y ago
I like Mailmate
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by _alex_ 6y ago
Mailmate is pretty awesome
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by _alex_ 6y ago
most of the time I need to read it, I use the PDF generation. It turns all the ascii into math symbols. way easier to read
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by _alex_ 6y ago
There are several lightning network (payment channel layer on top of bitcoin) paywalls where you can pay 1/10 of a cent to read an article. The tech exists, its now an adoption problem
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by _alex_ 6y ago
There are ASICs for Bitcoin and other coins that use SHA. Ethereum and other "later" cryptocurrencies using hashing algorithms that are memory-hard and there aren't efficient ASICs for those. If you're mining Ethereum or
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by _alex_ 6y ago
you must have had some REALLY bad captcha experiences to put it on the same scale as war
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by _alex_ 6y ago
Gold's market cap isn't driven by industrial use.
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by _alex_ 6y ago
Many assets start volatile and become more stable over time. As more money comes into bitcoin and the market cap goes up, it's reasonable to assume that volatility will go down.
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by _alex_ 6y ago
the key technical innovation that bitcoin gave us (that ethereum and other systems took to the next level) is a replicated state machine shared by untrusted peers. That's a huge deal for decentralized systems. It turns out that economi
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by _alex_ 6y ago
Null is probably a bigger mistake.
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by _alex_ 6y ago
dev in a linux vm/container on your M1 macbook, then deploy to a graviton instance.
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by _alex_ 6y ago
The first amendment protects you from the government: you can't be prosecuted for things you say (then there are some case-law carve outs for inciting violence, etc). The first amendment does not prevent businesses from terminating a r
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by _alex_ 6y ago
I'm making a wild-ass-guess here, but it sounds like when you clicked "forgot password" it would text you a code to punch in to verify your identity. It sounds like that part failed open. So once twillio went away, any code w
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by _alex_ 6y ago
"Cool, I found a package for this"
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by _alex_ 6y ago
Where's my password reset email? Hasn't come through yet because the email-miner is still searching for the right nonce
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by _alex_ 6y ago
if you're blocklisting/allowlisting addresses _anyway_, then spam isn't a problem. just block everything that's not on the allowlist
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by _alex_ 6y ago
USDC runs on ethereum
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by _alex_ 6y ago
How much money and how do we contribute?
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by _alex_ 6y ago
Buy stuff with it, sell it, hold on to it. Those are the things you can do.
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by _alex_ 6y ago
> Interview with someone who got an internship at aws and is now parroting things they read online. FTFY
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by _alex_ 6y ago
Not yet
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by _alex_ 6y ago
I think you just described ssh

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